Improvement in temporary binders



v c. LINDSEY.

TEMPORARY-BINDER.

Patented Nov. 23,1875.

No.170,Z8Z.

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NrrED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES D. LINDSEY, or clNcrNNArnonio.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170.282, dated November 23, 1875; application filed April 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. LINDSEY, of Cincinnati, in the countyof Hamilton and State. of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Temporary Binders, of which the following is a specification:

My invention is an improvement in the class of paper-holders in which a notched spring-plate is employed to secure or hold one or more fasteners in place upon a suitable block or pedestal.

The improvement relates to the construction hereinafter described and claimed, whereby a cheap portable device is produced, and the paper-fasteners so clamped as to be supported firmly in an erect position.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a side view of the bed-plate of the'paper-file, having the holding-plate attached, and showing the manner of introducing the holder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 1 taken on the line or 00. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of Fig. 2 taken on the line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is thebed-plate of the paper-file, which is stamped, bent down, or depressed, by means of a blunt punch, to form recesses B B, in

which the projections or'toes of the fastener rest. 0 represents the fastener, which is formed of a single piece of metal bent and folded, so as to form two toes or projections, 61 d, at the bottom, from which the two ends extend up, and are pointed, as seen in Fig. 3, that they may readily penetrate the paper. D is the holding-plate, which has slots E E over the recesses B B, to admit the fasteners. To insert the fasteners, the slots in the holding-plate D extend to the left of said recesses, so that when the toes d of the fasteners are inserted in the slots and forced (to the right) under the edge of plate D, not only will they (the toes) be tightly clamped, but the edges of the plate around the slots will support the fasteners on three sides, and thus maintain them in an erect position.

I do not claim broadly a paper-holder, having fasteners secured by means of a spring clam pin g-plate, provided with slots or notches, but I I claim- The improved portable paper-holder, herein described, formed of the sheet-metal plate A, having recesses B, the spring clamping-plate, having a closed and open slot, E, and the fasteners 0, provided with toes d, as set forth. 

